A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Rather
I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
我宁愿在自己的地板上烂掉，也不愿在养老院被一群玩宾果游戏的人发现。
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
我宁愿有无法回答的问题，也不愿有无法质疑的答案。
I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
我宁愿尝试做一些伟大而失败的事情，也不愿尝试什么都不做而成功。
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
我们的房子是如此笨重的财产，以至于我们经常被囚禁而不是被他们所居住。
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
我宁愿坐在南瓜上独享一切，也不愿挤在天鹅绒垫子上。
Sitting and listening to a clock tick is not a waste of time, but rather an appreciation of it.
坐着听时钟滴答作响不是浪费时间，而是对它的一种欣赏。
Words can be very powerful. Why not use them to lift someone up today rather than knock them down.
语言可以很强大。为什么今天不用它们来扶起一个人，而不是把他们打倒。
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
人们发现，每个时代都必须写自己的书;或者更确切地说，每一代都是为了下一代的成功。
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
我若自夸过于得体，我的借口是，我自夸是为人性，不是为自己。
Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.
在写作的世界里，我所做的一切，都是为了扩大表达，而不是关闭它。
I know it sounds crazy, but you've got to let what you're going to do find you, rather than you pursuing it.
我知道这听起来很疯狂，但是你必须让你将要做的事情找到你，而不是你去追求它。
In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.
在一些无辜人民正在死亡的国家，领导人是在追随他们的鲜血，而不是他们的头脑。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
当我们诚实地问自己生命中谁对我们最重要时，我们常常发现，是那些人，他们没有给出建议、解决方案或治愈方法，而是选择与我们分享痛苦，用温暖而温柔的手触摸我们的伤口。
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
不要为成功而奋斗，要为有价值而奋斗。
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
时间是一条河，这只是表面现象。这是一幅广阔的风景，是观者的眼睛在移动。
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
没有什么是真正有效的，除非你想做别的事情。
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
我宁愿娱乐并希望人们学到一些东西，而不是教育人们并希望他们得到娱乐。
Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
很多人来教堂是为了把衣服带来而不是自己。